"Please put (Blanco) in casual clothes, a baseball cap, etc.," wrote Liz Mangham, a PR consultant to the governor on Sept. 2, four days after the storm. "She needs to visit a shelter in prime time and talk tough, but hug some folks and be sensitive."
Mangham added that Blanco "looks ... too comfy in her suit. Please put the secretaries in caps and jeans. ... I don't care if they are in the field or not ... they should look like they are." Kim Fuller, another gubernatorial flack, echoed that theme two days later, suggesting that Blanco "might dress down a bit and look like she has rolled up her sleeves. I have some great Liz Claiborne sports clothes that look kind of Eddie Bauer, but with class, but would bring her down to (the) level of getting to work." Wow, doesn't this sound exactly like J. Effin Kerry during the 2004 campaign, from the L.L. Bean field coat (Whar kin Ah find me a huntin' license?) to touch football on the tarmac to waving corn cobs out the bus window - in other words, all "image" and no substance?!
